A few days ago Guardians of the Galaxy released to theaters, and I went to see it. After The Winter Soldier and all the trailers, I had high hopes for GotG, and it mostly lived up to them. It succeeded my expectations enough that I can happily say I enjoyed the film. It did have some weaknesses though, and one of them is something I have been noticing with a number of the recent films I have seen.
I never felt a connection to many of the characters. Starlord and Groot were both easy to connect to, but the others had a less compelling presence. This was disappointing, especially with how important those characters are. However, the film was still a lot of fun (the ending was also awesome) so go ahead and see it.
To put it another way, my issues with it make me hope that there is a longer cut of the film somewhere (that will hopefully materialize on media in the future) that does a better job of introducing and connecting the viewer to the characters. At least it felt like such a cut exists because of how some things were built up in the film that I did see.
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